Cleveland Clinic spins off orthopedics preoperative planning software company (MedCityNews)
Cleveland Clinic Innovations has spun off a new startup: a company that’s developing software to help orthopedic surgeons better plan operations.
Custom Orthopaedic Solutions‘ in-development OrthosVis software imports a patient’s CT scan and then produces a 3-D model that physicians can use to rotate, zoom and view cross-sectional images of the patient’s bone.
The company says its software can improve the accuracy and effectiveness of preoperative surgical planning.
Custom Orthopaedic Solutions (COS) was founded on technology developed by Dr. Joseph Iannotti, chair of the Clinic’s Orthopaedic and Rheumatologic Institute.
“There’s tremendous value in doing preoperative planning in the three-dimensional space and then having a mechanism to take the information to the [operating room] to better execute,” Iannotti said in the Innovations’ group’s inaugural newsletter.
It’s likely that the new company will be given a prominent role at the Clinic’s annual Medical Innovations Summit this year, which has an orthopedics theme and is scheduled for the end of October.
A Clinic spokesman said no ...
